"Frogs are symbols of prosperity, wealth, friendship,
and abundance in many cultures. In other cultures they symbolize
fertility. In the Native American culture of the Southwestern United
States, the frog carries a piece of wood in its mouth because the Mojave
people believe frogs brought fire to humans. For the ancient Romans,
the frog was believed to bring good luck to one's home. Native
Aborigines of Australia believe that frogs brought the thunder and rain.
Frogs are said to be effective in speeding up recovery from disease.
Among the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, frogs symbolized inspiration and
fertility. In ancient Egypt, Hekt, the frog goddess, protected newborn
babies, hence frogs were symbols of fertility and birth. The frog is
also said to attract true friends and to help find long-lasting love."

I printed four froggies, two on a white cardstock paper and two on green cardstock paper, colored and shaded parts I needed withcolored pencils, fussy cut all parts, colored edges with black permanent pen and glued all pieces together. Then I added gloss resin gel on froggie´s dots and belly, to create glossy accents.

For this challenge I made this Bunnies and ButterfliesCard, using our sponsor's beautiful image 'Aidynn's Bunny Framed' .

First I printed the image on a white paper (160 grams) and colored it with colored pencils.

When I color with colored pencils, I mostly blend colors using only pencils or using white pencil, but this time I tried something different. I blended colors with baby oil. I saw that in a videoColored Pencil Blending Methods by Dina Kowal a while ago. I am satisfied with the results.

While blending with baby oil, I smeared the image's background, so I decided to paper piece the image. I fussy cut the colored image, colored edges with black permanent pen, printed another image on pink paper (120 grams) and glued fussy cut piece over it. I didn't take photos of these.

I printed large polka dots digital paper and small polka dots black and white digital paper on the pink paper. I found those free digital papers a while ago, but, unfortunately, I can't find where. After I put all pieces of the card together, I added gloss resin gel on some parts of the image and covered butterflies with it, to create glossy accents. This is a new product I bought few days ago and it makes the same effect like a transparent glossy varnish that I used in my previous projects. Glossy effect is great and a 100 ml bottle didn't cost a lot. It was on sale, so it was great opportunity to grab something new and try it. I am very satisfied!

I printed one image on digital patterned paper. This was my card panel.

I printed two more images on white cardstock paper, colored them, fussy
cut them, colored edges with black pen and glued all pieces together. I covered balloon, cloud, cats´s muzzle, splats and heart with gloss resin gel to create glossy accents. This is a new product I bought few days ago and it makes the same effect like a transparent glossy varnish I used in my previous projects. Glossy effect is great and a 100 ml bottle didn't cost a lot. It was on sale, so it was great opportunity to grab something new and try it. I am very satisfied! :o)

Thursday, March 26, 2015

I finally managed to find some time to write this post. Spring arrived and I am busy like a little bee, flying here and there, doing zillion things. :-D

I am Pisces and I decided to celebrate whole period in a crafty way. Pisces period started this year on February 19th at 12:45 AM and ended on March 20th at 11:45 PM. (These time values are for Cavtat, Croatia.)

This was a big and very exciting challenge for me, because I usually don´t make cards every day, neither I write posts every day. I had some technical problems at the beginning, so I decided to extend this challenge for one day.

I made 32 cards, excluding DT cards.

I made a preview of all cards on my Celebrating 30 days of Pisces 2015 page, so I won´t list all of them here again. But I do want to share (again) my cards that were Honorable mentioned or TOP 3. I am so honored and happy for these recognitions! :-D

This was also a fun challenge. Trying new techniques or using new mediums is always so exciting.

Just from curiosity, I tried to color with colored pencils on a distressed paper. Results were great! It´s like coloring on a Kraft paper, also something new I tried for my DT project.

Before this challenge, I never build a scene with stamps using stamping and masking technique. It was a time for me to try this, because so many of you are doing that and I looooove it! :-D This mini card was a result and I was very satisfied with it. :-D

That would be all. I wrapped up all 30 days (well 31). I had so much fun and I hope I˙ll manage to repeat it next year.

I would like to thank you all for visiting and leaving me comments through my celebration period, and also to apologize that I didn't comment on your blogs so much as I usually do. I did visit you all, my dear friends, but I just didn't have enough time to comment on everything and to keep up with my challenges. I know you all understand. :-D

Big hugs to all and thank you for visiting today. Enjoy and smile! :-D

Saturday, March 21, 2015

I started making this one on February 5th and finished it yesterday, March 20th, before spring started. This is the 3rd crochet Happypotamus I made and I made it for my niece Tea, who is 4.5 years old.

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